Roger Deakins Quotes

To learn and to teach, to observe and to do

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

Everything is educational.

By playing, you learn.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

Educate, educate, educate!

You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.

The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?

I like to consume information. I like to learn.

I like to read and understand.

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

I think literacy is everything.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.